Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Haywood Hillebren, Colorado County, Texas, 1867

Haywood Hillebren registered to vote in Colorado County on August 14, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 4 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Mississippi and Texas marked
Born in Mississippi, registered in Colorado County, Texas
Mississippi
Birthplace
5 years
In Texas
4 years
In the county
about 1862
Reached Texas
1 year
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From 1860 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Colorado County

Haywood Hillebren

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Haywood Hillebren
Place of birth
Mississippi
County of registration
Colorado County
Precinct
96° 32'
Registered
August 14, 1867
Years in Texas
5 years
Years in Colorado County
4 years
Years in the precinct
4 years
Years in Texas before Colorado County
1 year
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Colorado County highlighted
Colorado County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

1 year

Haywood Hillebren reported 1 year more in Texas than in Colorado County.

Sources

This entry comes from the 1867 to 1870 Texas voter registration, the Texas Secretary of State registration lists held by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Colorado County's entries fill 64 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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